Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2005)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 20M
Director : Sut Jhally
Sinopsis
This video shows how the foreign policy interests of American political elites-working in combination with Israeli public relations stratgies-influence US news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a brief historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion.
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Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens. Everyone is after the Rawhide Terror and the two brothers are destined to meet again.
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La historia trata sobre una expedición de cuatro hombres que son llevados a Groenlandia para el rescate de un explorador que se suponía que había muerto, pero que se presume vivo tras encontrar una nota escrita en un diario. La expedición se mete en problemas cuando al intentar cruzar una zona semicongelada, ésta se rompe hacia el océano en forma de iceberg en lo que parece su definitivo final.
A young man has trouble communicating with people and is seeing a shrink. He falls in love at first sight, then meets three friends and joins their small community. The four youngsters naively decide to make some easy money by blackmailing an elderly woman. Little do they know that a stranger with a shady past and problematic present will turn their lives upside down. A story about love and despair, hope and disillusionment, revenge and revelation.
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Dole Food Company lleva a cabo una campaña para evitar que un par de cineastas suecos muestren su documental sobre una demanda contra la empresa.
Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, the two form an increasingly tight bond, Robin helping Liza through an unplanned pregnancy and Liza pushing Robin to develop a successful nightclub act.
Limbo se centra en una colonia de niños-vampiro de entre 4 y 120 años, todos ellos víctimas de vampiros adultos.
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A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
